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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: ii.16–17.
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f. 175v
I am a know to god and to the gostly fadyr þat y haue synnyd in brekyng off þe x comowndementes off god ffyrst y haue not louyd god ouer ale thyng ner drade hym ne wyrschypyd hym ne seruyd hym as y schulde do off the brekyng off thys commandement y cry god mercy …
f. 176v
… i haue synned in slewþe i haue be slow to lerne goddys law his slow to lerne to fle syn slow to be sory for synn slow …
Form of confession, first half only, breaking off in the discussion of sloth (fourth of the sins listed here). Different hand from that of main scribe. Wells Rev. 7:2563–64 [211], version X; Jolliffe C.27.
Other texts: Wells Rev. lists 70 MSS containing forms of confession and identifies 53 different prose versions, in addition to 4 MSS of 4 different verse versions. Other MSS of version X are BL Harley 2383 ff. 57–60 and Lincoln Cath. 210 (B.5.8) ff. 85v–87v. Durkin diss. notes that parts of the same text are also found incorporated into an otherwise wholly different form of confession (Jolliffe C.15) in BL Harley 1288 ff. 76–81v. For other versions see Hh.1.12 [10], and Ii.6.2 [2].
s. xv med.
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